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==Language of the Sea (A Nautical Dictionary)==
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==Language of the Sea - A Nautical Dictionary==
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'''''NOMENCLATURE AND TERMINOLGY OF THE SEA''' As provided by Seafarers throughout the ages.''
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'''''NOMENCLATURE AND TERMINOLGY OF THE SEA''' - As provided by Seafarers throughout the ages.''
'''ABAFT -''' Toward the rear (stern) of the boat. Behind.  
'''ABAFT -''' Toward the rear (stern) of the boat. Behind.  
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'''AWEIGH -''' Same as ''a-trip.''
'''AWEIGH -''' Same as ''a-trip.''
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<center>'''For more:''' Click on the alphabetical links in the menu at the bottom of the page.
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''Corrections, Additions & Clarifications - MMNETSEA''</center>
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<center>[[Language_of_the_Sea|'''A''']] | [[Language_of_the_Sea_1|'''B''']] | [[Language_of_the_Sea_2|'''C''']] | [[Language_of_the_Sea_3|'''D''']] | [[Language_of_the_Sea_4|'''E''']] | [[Language_of_the_Sea_5|'''F''']] | [[Language_of_the_Sea_6|'''G''']] | [[Language_of_the_Sea_7|'''H''']] | [[Language_of_the_Sea_8|'''I-J''']] | [[Language_of_the_Sea_9|'''K''']] | [[Language_of_the_Sea_10|'''L''']] | [[Language_of_the_Sea_11|'''M''']] | [[Language_of_the_Sea_12|'''N-O''']] | [[Language_of_the_Sea_13|'''P''']] | [[Language_of_the_Sea_14|'''Q-R''']] | [[Language_of_the_Sea_15|'''S''']] | [[Language_of_the_Sea_16|'''T''']] | [[Language_of_the_Sea_17|'''U-V-W''']] | [[Language_of_the_Sea_18|'''X-Y-Z''']]</center>
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===Useful links===
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* [http://www.omniglot.com/language Omniglot - Language Resource]
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Letting one beam-piece into another.
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To put the ship about, so that from having the wind on one side, you bring it round on the other by the way of her head. The opposite is ''wearing.''
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A vessel is on the ''starboard tack'', or has her ''starboard tacks on board,'' when she has the wind on her starboard side.
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The rope or tackle by which the weather clew of a course is hauled forward and down to the deck.
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The ''tack'' of a fore-and-aft sail is the rope that keeps down the lower forward clew; and of a studdingsail, the lower outer clew. The tack of the lower studdingsail is called the ''outhaul''.
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A combination of blocks and line to increase mechanical advantage.
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The rail round a ships stern.
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A rope spliced into the end of a block and used for making it fast to rigging or spars. Such a block is called a ''tail-block.''
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A ship is said to ''tail-up'' or down stream, when at anchor, according as her stern swings up or down with the tide; in opposition to ''heading'' one way or another, which is said of a vessel under way.
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Board bearing instructions to crew of wrecked vessel. Attached to a rocket line shot from rescue ship.
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An iron vessel placed in the hold to contain the vessel's water.
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A liquid gum, taken from pine and fir trees, and used for caulking, and to put upon yards in rope-making, and upon standing rigging, to protect it from the weather.
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A piece of canvass, covered with tar, used for covering hatches, boats, etc.
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Tight.
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High or tall. Commonly applied to a vessel's mast.
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A compass hanging from the beams of a cabin, by which the heading of a vessel may be known at any time.
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''Also'', an instrument connected with the barrel of a wheel, a traversing so that the officer may see the position of the tiller.
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To watch a vessel at anchor at the turn of tides, and cast her by the helm, and some sail if necessary, so as to keep turns out of her cable.
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A small boat used to transport crew, passengers and goods from shore to a larger boat.
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The heel of a mast, made to fit into the step.
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Commonly believed to be higher than preceding nine waves. In some areas, the fifth wave is largest.
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A block having one sheave larger than the other. Sometimes used for quarter blocks.
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An iron ring, having its rim concave on the outside for a rope or strap to fit snugly round.
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Pins in the gunwale of a boat, between which an oar rests when pulling, instead of an oarlock.
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The inner end of a gaff, where it widens and hollows in to fit the mast.
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The ''throat'' brails, halyards, etc. are those that hoist or haul up the gaff or sail near the throat.
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''Also'', the angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank.
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To stick short strands of yarn through a mat or piece of canvass, to make a rough surface.
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A seat or brace running laterally across a boat.
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The periodic rise and fall of water level in the oceans.
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The situation of a vessel, at anchor, when she swings by the force of the tide. In opposition to ''wind-rode.''
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A range of casks.
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A bar or handle for turning a boat's rudder or an outboard motor.
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Ropes leading from the tiller-head round the barrel of the wheel, by which a vessel is steered.
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The ends of the timbers that come above the decks. Used for belaying hawsers and large ropes.
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A rope carried taut between different parts of the vessel, to prevent the sheet or tack of a course from getting foul, in working ship.
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A pin placed through the bight or eye of a rope, block-strap, or bolt, to keep it in its place, or to put the bight or eye of another rope upon, and thus to secure them both together.
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The total weight of cargo and stores a vessel is capable of carrying when floating at it's waterline.
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The weight of the water displaced by the hull when the vessel is floating at its' load waterline.
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The total internal volume of a vessel. 100 cubic feet = 1 ton.
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The internal volume of a vessel available for cargo. Gross tonnage less engine, navigational equipment, etc.
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A platform, placed over the head of a lower mast, resting on the trestle-trees, to spread the rigging, and for the convenience of sailors' aloft.
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A large iron-bound block, hooked into a bolt under the lower cap, and used for the top-rope to reeve through in sending up and down topmasts.
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A signal lantern carried in the top.
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A lining on the afterpart of sails, to prevent them from chafing against the top-rim.
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The second mast above the deck. Next above the lower mast.
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The third mast above the deck.
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The rope used for sending topmasts up and down.
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The second sail above the deck.
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A schooner which sets one or more square-sails on the foremast above the gaff sail.
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The third sail above the deck.
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A lift used for topping up the end of a boom.
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''Also'', the line that controls the height of a spinnaker pole.
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The sides of a vessel between the waterline and the deck; sometimes referring to onto or above the deck.
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To throw an oar out of the oarlock, raise it on its' end, and lay it down in the boat, blade forward.
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A sail is said to ''touch'', when the wind strikes the leech so as to shake it a little.
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''Luff and touch her!'' The order to bring the vessel up and see how near she will go to the wind.
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To draw a vessel along by means of a rope.
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The tackle used for running guns in and out.
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The stern cross-section of a square-sterned boat.
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Long pins, used for nailing a plank to timber.
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Fore and aft balance of a boat.
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A Greek galley with three banks of oars.
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A circular piece of wood, placed at the head of the highest mast of the ship. It has small holes or sheaves in it for signal halyards to be rove through.
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The rope by which the center of a lower yard is kept in toward the mast.
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A fore-and-aft sail, set with a boom and gaff, and hoisting on a small mast abaft the lower mast, called the ''trysail-mast. ''This name is generally confined to the sail so carried at the mainmast of a full-rigged brig; those carried at the foremast and at the mainmast of a ship or bark being called ''spencers'', and those that are at the mizzenmast of a ship or bark, ''spankers.''
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The adjustments made to the standing rigging, the sails and the hull to balance the boat for optimum performance.
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The angular difference between the magnetic meridian and the geographic meridian at a particular location.
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''Also'', to slack a cable and let it out.
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A larger messenger sometimes used in weighing an anchor by a capstan.
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That part of the upper deck between the quarter-deck and the forecastle.
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The room in a vessel of war in which the commissioned officers live.
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To turn a vessel round, so that, from having the wind on one side, you bring it upon the other, carrying her stern round by the wind. In ''tacking'', the samse result is produced by carrying a vessel's head round by the wind.
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To move a vessel from one place to another by means of a rope made fast to some fixed object, or kedge.
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Light pieces of board placed above the gunwale of a boat. Also to the companionway.
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The cry of the man that heaves the deep-sea-lead.
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Goods floating on the sea after a shipwreck.
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Movement of a vessel through the water, such as headway, sternway, or leeway.
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Order given to a boat's crew when moving alongside. Boat has sufficient way and oars to be placed inside of boat.
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''Weather gage. ''A vessel has the ''weather gage'' of another when she is to windward to her.
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The wind and the tide run in opposite directions.
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Hull is sealed or self-draining.
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Latest revision as of 21:39, 23 April 2016

Language of the Sea - A Nautical Dictionary

NOMENCLATURE AND TERMINOLGY OF THE SEA - As provided by Seafarers throughout the ages.

ABAFT - Toward the rear (stern) of the boat. Behind.

ABEAM - At right angles to the keel of the boat, but not on the boat.

ABOARD - On or within the boat.

ABOARD MAIN TACK! - The order to draw the lower corner of the mainsail down to the chestree.

ABOUT - The situation of a vessel as soon as she has tacked.

ABOUT SHIP! - The order to prepare for tacking.

ABOVE DECK - On the deck (not over it - see ALOFT).

ABREAST - Off the side, level with the vessel.

ABYSS - All area of water lying 300 fathoms beneath the surface.

A-COCK BILL - Yards topped up at an angle with the deck. An anchor hanging from the cathead by a ring only.

ADRIFT - Broken from moorings. Afloat with no propulsion system in operation.

AFLOAT - Buoyed up by the water from the ground.

AFORE - Forward

AFT - Toward the stern of the boat.

AGAINST THE SUN - Anti-clockwise circular motion. Left-handed ropes are coiled against the sun.

AGROUND - Touching or fast to the bottom.

AHEAD - In a forward direction.

AHULL - Vessel lying alee with all sails furled.

AIDS TO NAVIGATION (A to N) - Artificial objects to supplement natural landmarks to indicate safe and unsafe waters.

ALOFT - Above the deck of the boat.

ALL-ABACK - All sails aback

ALL HANDS - The full crew

ALL IN THE WIND - When all sails are shaking. The state of a vessel's sails when they are parallel to the direction of the wind.

ALL HANDS HOAY! - The call by which all the ship's company are called up on deck.

ALONGSIDE - Side by side; joined to another vessel, pier, wharf, etc..

ALONG SHORE - Along the coast; A coast which is in sight, and nearly parallel with it.

ALOOF - At a distance

AMAIN - Suddenly. At once.

AMIDSHIPS - In or toward the center of the boat.

ANCHOR - A heavy metal device, fastened to a chain or line, to hold a vessel in position, partly because of its weight, but chiefly because the designed shape digs into the bottom.

ANCHOR ICE - Ice, of any form, that is aground in the sea.

ANCHOR-LOCKER - Storage space used for the anchor rode and anchor.

ANCHOR-WATCH - A small watch of one or two men, kept while in port.

AN-END - Mast being perpendicular to the deck.

ANCHORAGE - A place suitable for anchoring in relation to the wind, seas and bottom.

ANTIFOULING - Paint used on the bottom of the vessel to prevent barnacles and other organisms from attaching and propagating.

APPARENT WIND - The direction of the wind as is relative to the speed and direction of the boat.

A-PEEK - When a cable is hove taut so as to bring the vessel nearly over her anchor. The yards are a-peek when they are topped up by contrary winds.

APRON - A timber fixed behind the lower part of the stern just above the fore-end of the keel. A covering to the vent.

ARM. YARD-ARM - The extremity of a yard. Also, the lower part of an anchor, crossing the shank and terminating in the flukes.

ARMING - A piece of tallow put in the cavity and over the bottom of a lead-line.

ASHORE - On land.

ASTERN - In back of the boat, opposite of ahead.

ATHWART HAWSE - The situation of a ship when driven by accident across the fore-part of another, whether they touch or at a small distance from each other. The transverse position of the former is understood.

ATHWART THE FOREFOOT - When any object crosses the line of a ship's course, but ahead of her, it is said to be athwart her forefoot.

ATHWARTSHIPS - At right angles to the centerline of the boat; rowboat seats are generally athwartships.

A-TRIP - The anchor when it is raised clear of the ground. Same as a-weigh.

AVAST - An order to "stop".

AWASH - Deck of vessel overcome with waves.

A-WEATHER - The helm, when it is put in the direction from which the wind blows.

AWEIGH - Same as a-trip.

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